NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
Having gone through the permanent resident process for my wife, there were a lot of things that were potentially disqualifying that would have been protected activities for citizens. Being a member of the Communist party*, advocating for the overthrow of the American government, etc.
Does permanent resident status confer the right to participate in those activities that could have prevented you from getting that status in the first place?
* This came up and it seemed like not a big deal if the situation was "everyone has to participate in communist activities in China."
NewCharlesInCharge
9d ago
Localhost:1881
Substack is just processing the Referrer header in the HTTP request that browsers will send when users click a link.
So, someone has links to your Substack on a locally hosted page. Maybe one of our own viewing a locally hosted version of The Motte?
NewCharlesInCharge
17d ago
Most Americans seem to have broadly positive views of the Viet Cong, whose calling card was using innocent villagers as cover.
"The Vietname war was a mistake" is a common sentiment among Americans, but "the VC were good guys" is not.
NewCharlesInCharge
25d ago
Huh. My expectation was that there was more to the story, not that literally nothing could be corroborated.
Typically the way these play out is the person is going to an appointment with USCIS, it turns out the person already has a deportation order or a felony or something in their past that disqualifies them, and ICE took the opportunity to pick them up and deport them.
Stories like these demonstrate misunderstanding of how these systems work. They are still lumbering bureacracies. There are no Judge Dredds that will unilaterally send you to CECOT. Even if you're not already a green card holder, and the USCIS civil servant conducting your interview decides he doesn't like your face and won't approve your application, it's not straight to deportation. A Notice To Appear is issued, which starts the ball rolling for an Order of Removal.
Even the expansions under Trump to for expedited removal wouldn't apply to the particulars of this "case."
NewCharlesInCharge
30d ago
That sounds like regular selective pressure. The communities that can maintain fertility will be the ones that dominate in the long run.
You can model the sexual revolution as a heritable fertility disease for which a small segment of the population was immune or had attenuated effects, even if the source of their resistance was cultural rather than biological.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
If religion is transmissible and religious individuals are more fertile than the irreligious then it seems inevitable that the secular will be simply outbred, no?
Winning “converts” to secularism is a small tactical victory if they go on to have fewer than two children.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
Why aren't these women celebrating the freedom of hiding their gender? I don't see any think pieces on how freeing it is to post PRs under a genderless username, or to shitpost on X as a genderless anon.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I just watched the film. I couldn’t stop imagining how poorly received it would be with any other race combination.
A Bavarian beer hall gets set upon by Jewish vampires who menace the Germans with renditions of Hava Nagila.
A honky tonk besieged by a group of black vampires who blast hip hop and crip walk.
An English pub boarding itself up against Muslim vampires who are broadcasting a call to prayer and unfurling prayer rugs.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
On one hand I believe that prayer is God allowing man the dignity to participate in His own divine will. God will grant your petitions insofar as they align with His eternal unchanging will.
On the other hand, as a Catholic, I believe that intercessory prayer is worthwhile.
I suppose to reconcile the two I could frame intercessory prayer as vibing with the saints together to be part of God’s will.
NewCharlesInCharge
1mo ago
I’m reminded of the young men marching off to the Great War, excited at the prospect of winning glory, and finding a meat grinder.
There’s little glory in pushing the button. Maybe there is in creating the winning system behind the button, but it’s still of a different kind than a hoplite would have experienced.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
Biden is in an irregular marriage.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
A left group did put out those cringe ads which amounted to “vote for us or they’ll take away your porn”: https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/us-news/x-rated-dem-campaign-ad-claims-gop-wants-to-ban-porn-nationwide/
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
He gets a lot of credit for having been a political prisoner.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
If we get down the physics of it all the difference is that the latest gen nvidia chips can do more matrix calculations for a given amount of power.
Yet China is already at 3X the USA’s power generating capacity and grows by about a whole USA’s worth of capacity every 18 months.
And Chinese industrial policy is more nimble. If they decide to prioritize data centers they can just do that. In the USA private industry is squabbling over limited generating capacity and starting to plan for on site generation.
NewCharlesInCharge
2mo ago
You get the turbolibs who view him as a pig-slimeball rapist; and then you get some in the MAGA crowd who will with a straight face claim that none of it ever happened and he’s a good loyal husband.
Maybe in 20 years we’ll be able to know the truth here. But for now I just throw up my hands.
I can’t think of any honest broker of information that claims to have solid evidence either way. And the negative would be very difficult to show evidence for in any case.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
It wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but the proctored exams could filter out many of the people who wouldn’t be able to hack it but for cheating.
Or maybe even force them to learn how not to cheat.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
This is almost exactly the Good Friday liturgy in my Catholic parish. Though we all come forward to line up and personally adore the cross how we see fit, typically touching it, offering a prayer, and making the sign of the cross.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
At Facebook our version of this was called The Weekly Push and typically was promoting some new dev tooling.
I miss those days, I don’t think the name would get past our censorious overlords now.
NewCharlesInCharge
3mo ago
Years ago my big tech employer did a terrible job at planning restrooms in a new building we moved in. They didn’t accommodate for how male skewed we are and ended with a situation where the ratio of women to fixtures was something like 5:1 and for men it was around 50:1.
Every time I needed a toilet I found myself bouncing to different floors to find an unoccupied stall.
In one corner of one floor we had layout where there was a multi occupant men’s room with a urinal and a stall, and a single occupant ladies room. To try to ease the pain on overcrowded men’s rooms the company made the single occupant women’s room into a gender neutral bathroom.
A number of women raised hell about the message that sends to women. Never mind that women virtually never have to wait for a free toilet while the men constantly do. The women’s feelings on the matter were more important, and the sign was changed back.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Realized I didn’t address your first question: video does exist, but suffers the same problem that it can be dismissed out of hand as a hoax.
Here’s video of a spontaneously bleeding and pulsing host contained in a monstrance: https://aleteia.org/2019/06/17/this-eucharistic-host-was-filmed-bleeding-and-pulsating-like-a-heart-on-fire
And video of an apparently beating host: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251891/a-new-eucharistic-miracle-in-mexico
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I hate to respond with “read this sizable book” but I am curious how a skeptical medical doctor like yourself would respond to it.
I was intrigued by these miracles and so read A Cardiologist Examines Jesus by Dr. Franco Serafini. I came away with the impression that this would be too hard a hoax to coordinate and the odds of congruence are between miracles are very small, and so there’s very likely something to them.
He comes to the subject with a faithful but also rigorous attitude and dismisses at least one of the miracles he investigates.
It’s a fairly easy read, matter of fact and right to the point.
After reading it I searched for refutations and found nothing convincing. These are extraordinary claims, but it seems they don’t get serious consideration on account of that alone, not on the details being incorrect.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
There are human specific proteins that can be identified independent of DNA sequencing.
Grok suggests that it’s likely a failure to replicate the DNA via PCR that is at fault, with the report on the Buenos Aires miracle citing this explicitly, with other reports being more vague about failures to sequence.
My conversation with Grok also reminded me that the Eucharistic miracle blood type of AB is also the same observed in the Shroud of Turin.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
uncontrovertable evidence
There's the rub, right? Miracles tend to be one-off historical events, not laws of nature you can subject to experiment, so you end up having to rely on witnesses. And witnesses are easily dismissed as liars or suffering from delusions.
Though even the kinds of miracles that can be literally put under a microscope seem not uncontrovertable. Take Eucharistic miracles for which there are consistent findings that the material being examined is human heart tissue, that had been subjected to great stress, was very recently alive, of blood type AB, and with DNA that can't be sequenced. Some of the folks that investigate these even contracted with secular labs to do sample processing to avoid the appearance of bias.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
The S&P 500 is now up on the day.
I wonder if the drop was retail traders scared by the news into a sell off and the recovery institutions eating their lunch.
AFAICT there have been no noises made that the tariffs won’t actually be put into effect. Just lots of concessions being offered by other countries.
I mean someone working on the site’s codebase, presumably with all the necessary credentials.
It makes for very short iteration times to run dev code locally connected to the prod database. That’s how we work on the front end code at Meta.
But I have no clue how people work on the code here.
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